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Knox County Judge-executive Mike Mitchell came to the Corbin Senior Citizen Center last Tuesday to present officials with a check for $2,000. to be used for the meal program. The center has been in a budget crunch after cuts state and federal funding for the program, which was...

A prominent local surgeon, and co-founder of the Fine Arts Association of Southeastern Kentucky, passed away last Friday. He is being remembered this week as a humble, kind community servant whose contributions to his town will live on for years to come. Dr. Harry A. Hamilton...

A Corbin man was arrested Tuesday at the Corbin Walmart where his girlfriend reportedly fled after being held against her will for several days. Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Elmo Clinton Carroll, 35, on charges of second-degree unlawful imprisonment and fourth-degree...

The family of the woman who was shot and killed at a Woodbine residence on May 22, is asking for the public’s help to raise reward money in the hopes of enticing someone to give up the location of the man that police say killed her. Vicki S. Conner’s cousin, Nancy Wagner, has...

Williamsburg High School Principal Tim Melton, who has been hired to serve as the school district’s next superintendent starting on July 1, will get an early start to his new position. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day!...

A Lexington-based band that played twice in Williamsburg last year will be back Friday night to perform at the first of four free block parties this season. For the 14th consecutive year, the Williamsburg Main Street Program will offer free concerts this summer with “Off the...

The 2019-20 fiscal year budget is still being finalized but Corbin city officials say it will include funding to upgrade the 911 dispatch center, the splash pad, larger swings at the Rotary Park playground, and approximately $330,000 for road paving projects. Read this story and...

Kentucky has made tremendous gains over the last few years in business and elsewhere, but all of those gains are threatened if Kentucky doesn’t address and fix its public pension system, Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions President and CEO Jim Waters told members of...

Williamsburg’s recently created National Historic District could have a significant impact for building owners wanting to rehabilitate contributing structures within the district, and for the town. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access...

Local school-age youth will have the chance next week to participate in a free basketball camp in Whitley County, which will be conducted by a former University of Kentucky basketball player. The Operation UNITE Shoot Hoops Not Drugs basketball skills camps will conclude...